furtive chaos vs. careful curation

TED Talks have become too congested with trivial and sometimes questionable stuff. EDGE.ORG remains pure awesomeness and keeps getting better. Therein may lie a lesson. Is the Edge’s quality of content a result of it being carefully curated, as opposed to a massive waterfall of information from mostly lesser thinkers that TED represents? Do the organizations target different audiences?

Can we apply a similar comparison to the fundamental distinctions of Open Source vs. Apple/Microsoft models? Open Source software is infinitely more flexible, diverse and ultimately more useful to the knowledgeable user. Corporate products, on the other hand, are designed more purposefully, tested better and are generally more appealing to the ‘end user’. No right or wrong here – both approaches have their place.